First trade: read my chart as resistance 58 and support 56. Went for a short at 58 and removed my 6 tick limit.
Was not the best entry, bounced around 58 for a while then went down to 56 and I closed.

Second trade: I got back on for a long a 56.5 thinking it would go back up from 56. I almost got stopped out but did not. I got back in too soon. took my limit off and waited until 58 was reached. I was hoping it would go to 60 and took the chance when it dipped again. It worked and I closed when it went sideways at 60.

Third trade: It started back down after hitting the resistance. I got back in and it went straight down to 58 I waited to see if it went passed, it did and I got out at 56. Pilot error again and had to close fast.

First trade: I waited I while to look for S/R points. It made some long trending moves and hit a resistance point and started to go sideways so I went short looking for a reverse. It went 2 more points then reversed so I was stopped out at my 6 ticks.

second trade: It reversed to the same S/R and I thought it would go lower so I shorted again. It just hit my target but did not fill and reversed. Then I thought I moved my limit down below the 6 ticks but removed it and lost 3 points before I got out of it.

third and fourth: both of these I was in synch and hit my target fast.

Fifth: went just down past another S/R line, I shorted and it went sideways then up to stop me out.

I just missed the first 2 trades and the pilot error would have cost my had I been live. both will come with more practice.

The discipline to manage the trades will not be a problem. building a system and becoming my own expert will take some time. I know I want to keep my system simple. Know the market, Trend, PA, and Volume So far.

I have been concentrating on my live investments for the last 2 weeks(up 10% last week). I have continued studying price action and sim trading. Most of my time i have been reading Al brooks books, articles and watching his videos. I will concentrate on learning price action for the time being.
Last week i got a live demo account from AMP futures and will start sim trading with it this week. This week I will also start to open a funded account, 2 to 3 week timeframe for this. I am still not clear how to go about opening the different accounts. Ninja will be my platform but I am not sure about the broker and data yet.
I continue to be addicted to learning this. I am 3 months into learning to trade futures and I always want to learn more and more. I think about it all day and dream about it all night. One thing I understand is that I will learn so much more when I go live. Cant wait!

I have put in an application for a live account with Ninjatrader as my broker.

My swing trade with TQQQ is the most profitable trade to date.(up $7100 to date) I have my stop set at 5% so

I am beginning to feel a little more comfortable with reading the charts.
It will be interesting to see what problems I run into when I go live. I have learned a lot from swing trading the Qs
and my index funds over the years. As of now I think it will be the same emotions with ES just to a lesser degree.

Here is todays trades with the live demo.
4 trades. 3 good with one stopped out.